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News - Thematic area articles
Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data
ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Interviewing Mirko Albani
ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.
News - Success Stories
How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
Event - Workshop
Fringe 2003 Workshop
The third ESA International Workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry and its first Workshop on ASAR interferometry: Advances in SAR interferometry from ERS and Envisat missions.
Activity - Projects
Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme
The Dragon 2 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.
News - Infographics
ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
Document - General Reference
spaceborne-radar-applications-in-geology-an-introduction.pdf
This document is intended for geologists who are interested in broadening their knowledge of interpretation of imaging radar data. It introduces imaging radar as it may be used by technicians and image interpreters. Interferometric SAR is briefly treated, with some basic and practical hints. An illustrated application study on land subsidence is included.
Tools - Apps
Heritage Missions app for Android
Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.
Tools - Other
Hydrology TEP
The Hydrology Thematic Exploitation Platform (TEP) enables access, processing, uploading, visualisation, manipulation and comparison of hydrological data.
Tools - Other
Forestry TEP
The Forestry Thematic Exploitation Platform (TEP) enables users in the forestry sector to access satellite data based processing services and tools for generating value-added forest information products.
Document - Product Specifications
Annex D- SAR PRI CCT and Exabyte Format Specification
The document concerns the SAR.PRI product (SAR Precision Image). This is a digital image which is generated from raw SAR data, using-up-to-date auxiliary parameters, corrected for antenna elevation, gain and range spreading loss.
Document - Technical Note
The Influence of Orbit Precision in the Quality of ERS SAR Interferometric Data
The Influence of Orbit Precision in the Quality of ERS SAR Interferometric Data.
Document - General Reference
2013 Dragon 3 Brochure
The 2013 Dragon 3 cooperation brochure presents the activities undertaken since the formal start of programme in June 2012.
Document - Proceedings
2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium
The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium was held in Salzburg - Austria from 6 to 10 September 2004. The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium provided a forum for investigators to present results of ongoing research project activities and assess the development of applications and services.
Document - Proceedings
POLinSAR 2005- Workshop on Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry
Proceedings of the workshop held from 17-21 January 2005 at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.
Document - Proceedings
3rd International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications
Proceedings of the symposium held on 11-14 September 2001 at the University of Sheffield, UK. This Symposium provided a snapshot of where we currently stand in exploiting SAR data to understand geophysical and biophysical processes. It identified important areas for future research, in terms of specific problems and general trends: in total, 80 papers were presented on Forestry, Agriculture and Land Cover, Hazards and DTM, Soils and Hydrology, Snow and Ice, Process Modelling.
Document - Proceedings
SAR Workshop - CEOS Working Group on Calibration-Validation
Proceedings of the SAR Workshop organised in the framework of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation, held from 24-26 September 2002 in London, UK.
Document - Proceedings
POLinSAR 2003 - Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry
Proceedings of the POLinSAR Workshop held from 14-16 January 2003 at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy
Document - Proceedings
Fringe 2011
Proceedings of the FRINGE 2011 Workshop held from 19-23 September 2011 at ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy.